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Reviewed by Roger Pippett

LARGE

THE BIG MONEY

By John dan. Parsog (Constable, 7. Gα)

AM by no means sure that this novel should be reviewed as. fiction, for the author is, in his own words, an architect of history an indefatigable designer who has taken Those United Slater as his material and produced a shent of masterly blue-prints antion.

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The Big Money completes the trilogy which began with. The Forty-second Parallel and was continued in Nineteen-Nineteen, pages. Nearly fifteen hundred Hundreds of thousands of words. principal characters. Thirteen Boores of supere. And a ranging in time and space from pre-War Harvard to Paris, Florida, Hollywood, New York and Detroit.

scope

Four prople-two men and two women-hold the stars in this con- cluding volume: Charley Anderson," the air-pilot, Mary French, the re- volutionary. Margo Dewling, the aim star, and Dick Savage, the in- tellectual.

Charley. Mary, Margo nul Dick... There they Arc, working, loving, posturing in the advancing shadow of the Big Money. Not puppeta or pasto board figures, but human beings strug- ging, more or less unconsciously and, most part, unsuccessfully, for the against their destiny. which is iso the destiny of Those United Slater

For Mr. dos Passos is one of those Fare creatures, a willer with social

a social urgs. His atti conscience and

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tude, which is that of a sympathelle observer dintrensed at the wagle and futility of civilisation, is Implicit in his narrative. But, so that there shall be no mistake about it, he drives 1 argu meat home in the series of nelti b graphiles of auch significant Americaus in Veblen, the Wright Brothers and Valentino, which interrupt the story here and there.

To me, at any rate, these sharply drawn concentrated. relentlerly *ketchen are the high lights of this tremendous trilogy. Listen, tot in- stance, to this:

In the rush of new names the Wright Brothers passed out of the headlines.

But not even headlines or the hitler smear of newsprint or the choke smokescreen and gas or chatter of brokers on the stockmarkel or bark. ing of phantom millions or oratory of braahata inying wreathe on the new monuments can blur the memory of that chilly December day.

"A day when two alivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio, rst fell their homemade contraption, whittled out of hickory sticks, gummed together With Arnstein's bicycle cement, alretched with multa they'd sown on their sister's sewing-machine In their own backyard on Hawthorn Street ..soar into the air above the dunes and the wide bench ni Kaly Hawk"

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Or this on Veblen, the economist who asked too many questions, suffer ing from a constitutional inability to Блу уса."

Boerates asked questions. He drank down the bitter draught une nig when the first cock crowrd, But Veblen drank In little alps through a long life in the stuffiness of class-rooms, this dust of libraries, the slateness of cheap fata such as a poor instructor can alford.

"He fought... all right-pedantry. $60,000,000 routine, time-survera at cffice desks, 20.000.000 trustees, college presidents, the plump flunkles of the ruling business men. all the good jobs kept for yes men. never enough money, every broaden. ing hope thwarted.

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REVOLT

SUMMER WILL SHOW

By Sylvia Townsend Warner Chatto and Windus, 85. bd.)

SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER has definitely grown up and deserted Lolly Willowes in this astonishingly forceful novel.

She shows you an Englishwoman who leaves her-Dorset home and her. intensely respectable and erderly life to follow an errant husband to Paris. As she arrives the revolution of 1848 breaks out and so does Sopbla's roul nature.

Baving long despised the flippant and treacherous Frederick, her hus band, she falls under the spell of his ex-mistress, the Polish Jewess and amateur revolutionary. Minna.

Gone are respectability, caution and all thoughts of home.

Among

Bhe remain obstinately English and Whiggish in her ideas, but emotionally ni is enslaved to Mina. Minna's erasy, idealistic and starving friends she is her new freedom- devotion to a revolution she does NOL understand and which is doomed from the begiming by its own ineptitude.

The pictures of chaolle Parks are ex- tremely vivid, and the friendship be tween the exolic Minna and the stube. born, blonde Sophia Is. for all its ur- There face strangeness, convincing. are pastages of unforced lyrical love Biness.

And contrast between a sluggish England and a feverish France is ad mirably suggested.

LIFE

HOUSE, by Lady THE SPRING

Cynthia Asquith (Michael Joseph. 74. d.). A first novel about the war and the women who stayed at home. Most of the characters have titles, military rank, love affales and ne feelings. Sincere.

HENDY OF GREEN GHYLL: A TALE OF TEESDALE,, by Ellen Callinan (The Teesdale Mercury Bookshop, Barnard Castle, 2s. 10d, post froe). In which a woman who understands the dalesfolk tells an attractive story of the Durham countryside. MOUNT PROSPECT, by Elizabeth

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By 1, J. Singer

(Putnam, 8. Gu.) '

NE good thing anti-Semi- tem has done. It has made the Jews proud of their race-not in the old, exclusivo ense, but in the way of pulling forward their achievements as a part of world culture.

le such a story on this, written in the international tongue of the Jews, worth being translated and read in any lan guage? As with Asch, so with Singer: the answer is definitely yea

The Brothers Askenazi fins a double theme. It is the glory of a rivalry be tween twinn, and it also tells of the rise and fall of the city of Lodz, once the home of a vant textile Industry.

Max Askenazi was the coldly kimbl. tious type, a lover of power and wealth, His brother, Jacob, was as different na possible-gay and expansive, a apend- thrift of his money, talents, affections, and energies.

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Max came to be known as the King of Lodz, until the War and the Russian Revolution destroyed that mushroom prosperity, allenced his factories and emplied his fantastic palace, Jacob eiled defying the people to whom the Jew, na such, was the partali.

Each brother was an egotist, blindly unaware of the social development of which he was n part. Each was doomed, ko the small town of his childhood and the swaggering elly of

la prime.

Both the background of the inder trist development and decline of Lodz, with a mixture of erthodox and un- orthodox Jews and Pollth workers, and the individual characterization vividly and powerfully donc,

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The pace of the tulo is fast, but the progress is sure. In fact, the book seems to pulsate with He. It triumpha in its human qualities and in its ruhu on of the exotic yet restricted Jewish culture to the wider world.

THRILLS

THE GBOST IT WAS, by Richard Huli Faber and Faber, 75. 04.). Murder, stalks the top of a haunted tower with secret peepholes and other medieval fitments. You are warned not to believe at nil in the existence of a newspaper in mil written o the author pictures .

THE KIDNAP MURDER CASE, by 8. 9. Van Dine Cassell, 7a. Od.). Philo Vance. having publicly unvelled yet another muiderer, thankfully goes on to the opera. Most grati fyin'." he ongupees as the last corpse slumps to the floor. With the usual footnotes.

FAIR WARNING, by M. O. Eberhart (Collins, 79. 6). She had both n

Husband BRUistie

and

pure next love for the young man door. The husband was atabbed to the heart and there were unworthy suspicions. But at last "he took her hand..."

MURDER IN FIJI, by John W. Van. dercook Heinemann, 78. 04.). For four the most blu'aler reasons murders on the Island of Vill Luvu pleased certain powerful people there. But there three dead les helped to doom the murderer, a tak Ing fellow.

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ROUGH ISLAND

HERO BREED

STORY

By Fat Mullen (Faber, and Faber, ds. 6d.)

BOLD Lille, yet it seems almost an understatement as you stagger along in the tenth of the gale that blows through those pages. For Mr. Mullen comes from the Aran Islands, and this is a tale of his people.

If you plne in your Bollon for mascara-lashed debutante deadheads, striding atonily in and out of simply marvellous love-affairs, When Hiera Breed will-bore and, perhaps, madden you. For it tells of a world, in which me and women must cling to their Bea-battered, rocks like limpets or Perloh. A world of fierce hates and A world of wild deree friendaliips and everlasting toll

Mackerel crowd the swirling water and rabbits lottop across the and carth They are. I fancy, the most Important creatures in Mr. Mullen's atory, for islanders must hunt to live- and sometimes a curragh doesn't come home...

'At the wake there were many words of praise for Hugh, because of tow bravely he tried to save Mickel, but al! were agreed that. when the death is on a man. he cannot be saved."

And, anyway, "the death of Mickel did not make much difference in the affairs of the village, except to these mort closely.concerned, and after some weeks the incident was nimost for- gotten."

That's Mr. Mullen's world. Button up your cont and battle your way through with him.

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THIS MAN 18 DANGEROUS By Peter Cheyney ¡Collina, 7. (d)

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decreed that a family should live together when they would clearly have been better apart. ... CROSS-DOUBLE-CROSS. by Lowla Masefield (Putnam, 74. 6.). A satire on modern politics, written with gusto and a lively sense of fun by the son of the Poet Laureate. cheerfully fantastic glimpse into the poar future,

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One of the musclera-in has a fancy Iine in English, and he tells the tale Also he is the classiest gangster of the fot. He falls for the fano in a big way. And and it comes to a showdown. then 's curtains for the rest of the boys.

I'm telling you that this writer-guy. Cheyney, his pulled a fust one on us- and I don't mean maybe. Seet

· IMAGINARY BIOGRAPHERS By Seven Authore

Allen and Untėjui, Is. Gil.) THESE Boven imaginary

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stories of men and women who show for a few moments through the mists of history were, with one exception, broadenst recently. They are a feather in the B.B.C.'s not too spectacular cap.

I like best Helen Simpsoti's account of the man from Porlock who intr rupted Coleridge after the first few lines of Kubla Khan, But there are allers-C. P. Snow on the original of Leonardo's Mona Liza, 1laire Belloc on the man who recognised the fugitive Louis XVI at Varetusen, And so on and so on..

Retouching history is a hilly dan. gerous pastline. But at least five of there writers have dared and won.

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BE'S GOT A MILLION, by V. Krymor (Allen and Unwin, 75 d.). A devastating picture on the of Ruslan Society

Shrewd eve of the Revolution. and convincing.

THE RAMPARTS OF VIRTUE,

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High Jinks

RUMFUSTIAN by Judith Fay (Dent. 78. Ed.). Or How the Nankren-Fustian Family Came Through. Berved hot, as the old recipe requires, with grated nutmeg,

Thrills

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Sigrid Undset (Cassell, 7s. £d.), A vivid, sombre tale of those Vikings, wading through flood and blood, killing and living et top speed,

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RETURN TO THE RIVER. by Kathleen Newitt (Jarrolds, 73. 04.). The story of a country, parson's family who remain gay despite poverty and circum- stance. Human,

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